T30 wifi

[burns334]

Good afternoon, I booted up my old T30 and for some unknown reason it does not see my network. It does see 3 other networks near me. When I go the the network connections in the wi-fi connections icon it has a red x thru the connection. So what is screwed up? is my wifi working, I would think so since I see some networks, is it something with my router, all my other laptops are fine. I tried using the devise manager and managed to get rid of one network and gain another. Suggestions please,thanks in advance.

burns

[TPFanatic]

T30 may or may not support WPA2 and certainly does not support WPA3. The card may or may not be able to detect 5 GHZ in addition to 2.4 GHZ. The issue may be one of configuration incompatible with what the T30's card supports.

[axur-delmeria]

Isn't the T30 limited to 802.11b?? That's 11Mbps @ 2.4GHz.

[kfzhu1229]

Good afternoon, I booted up my old T30 and for some unknown reason it does not see my network. It does see 3 other networks near me. When I go the the network connections in the wi-fi connections icon it has a red x thru the connection. So what is screwed up? is my wifi working, I would think so since I see some networks, is it something with my router, all my other laptops are fine. I tried using the devise manager and managed to get rid of one network and gain another. Suggestions please,thanks in advance.

burns

The X shows up when the network is under WPA series protocols which the stock T30 wifi card does not support. Either you are gonna need to have a router set up specifically with WEP protocol or guest login (there are security compromises with these) or you go get a no-1802 flashed in and then put any of the wifi cards from the Pentium M machines.
If you specifically need Windows 98 to work with it, then you're pretty much limited to only Intel 2100 3B, which supports only 802.11b but WPA2, and supports a native Windows 98 wifi connection utility (which I do not know if it will work with WPA2)

[dr_st]

The X shows up when the network is under WPA series protocols which the stock T30 wifi card does not support. Either you are gonna need to have a router set up specifically with WEP protocol or guest login (there are security compromises with these) or you go get a no-1802 flashed in and then put any of the wifi cards from the Pentium M machines.
If you specifically need Windows 98 to work with it, then you're pretty much limited to only Intel 2100 3B, which supports only 802.11b but WPA2, and supports a native Windows 98 wifi connection utility (which I do not know if it will work with WPA2)

There exist mini PCI cards with 802.11g, maybe even 802.11n, Win98 (SE) and WPA2 support. Mostly RT61-based but maybe some others. They are not easy to find though, and of course, they require the no-1802 as you said.
viewtopic.php?t=135627

[kfzhu1229]

There exist mini PCI cards with 802.11g, maybe even 802.11n, Win98 (SE) and WPA2 support. Mostly RT61-based but maybe some others. They are not easy to find though, and of course, they require the no-1802 as you said.
viewtopic.php?t=135627

Yeah there are other cards with Windows 98 drivers specifically, I believe Dell laptops also had a number of Truemobile cards that supported WPA2 and Windows 98 drivers. But they don't come with a stock client for Windows 98, I don't know if there are universal free to use clients for Windows 98 like ThinkVantage Access Connections that you can use in Windows 2000
The perk with the 2100 3B is that Intel gave it a built in 100% free to use client, hence why I mentioned that card specifically

[dr_st]

Yeah there are other cards with Windows 98 drivers specifically, I believe Dell laptops also had a number of Truemobile cards that supported WPA2 and Windows 98 drivers. But they don't come with a stock client for Windows 98

The Ralink cards come with their own client. It just sort of needs to be hacked to allow WPA2 specifically on Win98. I detailed the process in my write-up linked in the thread above.